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Living Room / Re: XBOX 360 with Kinect or Wii?
« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2011, 11:23 AM »What wraith says.
I have used both for exercise (i have a friend who does video game research work and was able to borrow them for long periods), and the xbox with kinect seems to be the superior exercise tool.
The kinect exercise games can be frustrating to use, but it is real -- it really can figure out where your body is. the wii is much more of a gimmick, pretending to know what you are doing but it's largely an illusion.
There are 3 main exercise games for kinnect currently, EA Sports Active, The Biggest Loser, and Your Shape Fitness Evolved.
EA Sports Active is the one i use the most -- it has a very annoying initial user interface, but it has the most running in it, which i like the best. It also has a very cool feature that lets you create your own custom workouts which I like.
The biggest loser is good and gets good reviews. Has more varied activities and tries to be more engagin.
Your Shape Fitness Evolved should be sent to every other kinect developer as a lesson in how to create a user interface for navigating and selection that doesn't make you want to smash something into your tv screen -- i don't know why the rest of the kinect games have such poorly designed user interfaces.
Since you are a coder, you have the extra incentive for the xbox kinect in that you can get the windows sdk for the kinect now should you want to code stuff for it.
Anyway, easy decision for exercise use: xbox360 with kinect.
I have used both for exercise (i have a friend who does video game research work and was able to borrow them for long periods), and the xbox with kinect seems to be the superior exercise tool.
The kinect exercise games can be frustrating to use, but it is real -- it really can figure out where your body is. the wii is much more of a gimmick, pretending to know what you are doing but it's largely an illusion.
There are 3 main exercise games for kinnect currently, EA Sports Active, The Biggest Loser, and Your Shape Fitness Evolved.
EA Sports Active is the one i use the most -- it has a very annoying initial user interface, but it has the most running in it, which i like the best. It also has a very cool feature that lets you create your own custom workouts which I like.
The biggest loser is good and gets good reviews. Has more varied activities and tries to be more engagin.
Your Shape Fitness Evolved should be sent to every other kinect developer as a lesson in how to create a user interface for navigating and selection that doesn't make you want to smash something into your tv screen -- i don't know why the rest of the kinect games have such poorly designed user interfaces.
Since you are a coder, you have the extra incentive for the xbox kinect in that you can get the windows sdk for the kinect now should you want to code stuff for it.
Anyway, easy decision for exercise use: xbox360 with kinect.
